Bat use of created and natural wetlands

Maslonek, Marcia L.

doi:10.33915/etd.2966

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“…Assuming good water quality, creation and maintenance of wildlife-friendly water retention areas (Wood et al 2013) will benefit bats by providing a source for drinking water and potential foraging areas that mitigate for loss of streams and stream function post-mining. Waterhole creation on xeric ridgetops distant from lentic or lotic habitats to benefit bats has been demonstrated in the Appalachian Plateau (Huie 2002;Maslonek 2010;Johnson et al 2010;. Research regarding bat response to stream reclamation and restoration is limited (Ciechanowski et al 2011); however, analogous to the FRA process, as vegetation matures and stream processes stabilize, bats will likely utilize these redeveloping foraging and commuting habitats.…”

Section: Bat Foragingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Terrestrial Wildlife in the Post-mined Appalachian Landscape: Status and Opportunities

Lituma

Cox

Spear³

et al. 2020

Appalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapes

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Coal mining is an anthropogenic stressor that has impacted terrestrial and semi-aquatic wildlife in the Appalachian Plateau since European settlement. Creation of grassland and early-successional habitats resulting from mining in a forested landscape has resulted in novel, non-analog habitat conditions. Depending on the taxa, the extent of mining on the landscape, and reclamation practices, effects have ranged across a gradient of negative to positive. Forest-obligate species such as woodland salamanders and forest-interior birds or those that depend on aquatic systems in their life cycle have been most impacted. Others, such as grassland and early-successional bird species have responded favorably. Some bat species, as an unintended consequence, use legacy deep mines as winter hibernacula in a region with limited karst geology. Recolonization of impacted wildlife often depends on life strategies and species' vagility, but also on altered or arrested successional processes on the post-surface mine landscape. Many wildlife species will benefit from Forest Reclamation Approach practices going forward. In the future, managers will be faced with decisions about reforestation versus maintaining open habitats depending on the conservation need of species. Lastly, the post-mined landscape currently is the focal point for a regional effort to restore elk (Cervus canadensis) in the Appalachians.

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Section: Bat Foragingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Terrestrial Wildlife in the Post-mined Appalachian Landscape: Status and Opportunities

Lituma

Cox

Spear³

et al. 2020

Appalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapes

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“…Location of studies monitoring bat activity in restored, constructed, or drained wetlands. Studies on actual restoration of wetlands are very limited (green dots; Menzel et al 2005; Allagas 2020; Snyder 2022), most work having been carried on constructed wetlands (orange triangles; Flaquer et al 2009; Maslonek 2010; Ciechanowski et al 2011; Stahlschmidt et al 2012; Korine et al 2015; Straka et al 2016; Parker et al 2019; Toffoli & Rughetti 2020; Beranek et al 2021; Li et al 2021), while one study investigated the effects of drainage (red diamonds; Vindigni et al 2009). …”

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Restoration of boreal wetlands increases bat activity

Vasko,

Gaultier,

Blomberg

et al. 2024

Restoration Ecology

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Wetlands are important habitats for insectivorous bats, as the presence of water promotes insect abundance and provides drinking water for wildlife, and therefore could promote bat conservation. Research on bats and wetlands has mainly focused on constructed wetlands, and with a geographical emphasis on eastern United States and central Europe, whereas relatively little is known about the effects of wetland restoration on bats, especially in the boreal zone. We conducted a Before‐After‐Control‐Impact (BACI) study in 21 wetlands. Using acoustic survey techniques, we collected information on bats both before and after restoration, with 7 of the 21 wetlands acting as control sites and 14 as impact (i.e., restored) sites. Acoustic surveys were conducted in May–September in the years 2018, 2019 (before restoration) and in 2021 and 2022 (after restoration). Species detection for each night was assessed by automated analysis of audio recordings. We assessed the presence and number of active minutes of the Northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) and the Myotis species group, using a generalized linear mixed model. Wetland restoration increased the acoustic activity of both taxa, but not their presence. Thus, restoration increased the usage of wetlands as a feeding site for bats. Our BACI study provides strong evidence that wetland restoration caused an increase in bat activity, and can be used as an effective tool for bat conservation.

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Nightly and yearly bat activity before and after white-nose syndrome on the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia

Johnson¹,

Rodrigue²,

Ford³

2013

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In the central Appalachians, conservation concern about bat communities and their population status has become increasingly more significant with the advent and spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS). However, managers often are hampered in their response to WNS by the lack of information on pre-WNS local distribution, abundance, or activity patterns for most bat species. At the Fernow Experimental Forest (FEF), Tucker County, WV, where bat research has been conducted since the mid-1990s, we acoustically monitored bat activity a total of 20 nights each at four sites for 4 years-3 years before and 1 year after WNS was detected-to better assess those local patterns. Within sampling nights, activity of northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) and big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) peaked directly after sunset and declined throughout the night, whereas activity of little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) and Indiana myotis (Myotis sodalis) had a unimodal distribution that peaked in the middle of the night. Activity of many bat species differed among sample sites and was highest at a small, artificial pond located on a dry ridgetop. Activity of little brown myotis, northern myotis, and Indiana myotis was lower post-WNS than pre-WNS, consistent with the species' precipitous declines previously reported in WNS-affected areas in the Northeast and upper portions of the Mid-Atlantic. Cover PhotoNorthern myotis. Photo by Jane Rodrigue, U.S. Forest Service.

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Bat use of created and natural wetlands

Cited by 3 publications

References 87 publications

Terrestrial Wildlife in the Post-mined Appalachian Landscape: Status and Opportunities

Terrestrial Wildlife in the Post-mined Appalachian Landscape: Status and Opportunities

Restoration of boreal wetlands increases bat activity

Nightly and yearly bat activity before and after white-nose syndrome on the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia

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